The Stylistics is or was a smooth soul all male singing group from the nineteen seventies. Although I have almost no interest in that kind of music, I know about them since my mother and father usually like listening to soul music from the sixties and seventies. I also …

Money To Burn is the third track on MGMT’s debut record, Climbing To New Lows. What I mentioned about the previous track, We Care, is that the song features frequently changing dynamics from a loud intro, to a quiet verse, to a building pre-chorus, to a loud chorus. However, …

The song Baby was what catapulted teen singer Justin Bieber to stardom. This song has such a catchy tune, anyone, both young and old people can sing it. Never a day passes that I do not hum the song to myself, which is testament to how hypnotic …

The album “Like Swimming” By Morphine is not what I expected from such an odd sounding band. When I really listen to this song, it is amazing. The voice that I hear makes me want to relax, sit back, and enjoy the music. Of course, I would not recommend …

Lucifer Rising is a song by the Flaming Lips and a bonus track to appear on their fourth studio record, In A Priest Driven Ambulance. Opening up with a heavily distorted introduction, I’m slightly reminded of a sound that Radiohead would go on to embrace many years after this …

I first came across Adele during a period when my favourite artist, Amy Winehouse, was very quiet on the music front, I love a strong female vocalist and have felt drawn to the kind of music Amy created for a number of years.  After hearing Make You Feel My …

Lips Of An Angle by Hinder is a song I like because it talks about how a guy still has feelings for this other girl and it goes into details about how this girl gives the guy a phone call and the guys girl does not know it is …

Overview —“ Mama Said, a third music video released for Metallica’s album Load, is the music video for a song which honestly doesn’t strike me, and I’m sure most people, as a Metallica song. I mean even just thinking about the title and the artist, having the word Metallica …

In 1998, a lone musician was featured on the soundtrack for the movie “Good Will Hunting”. Several songs were featured by this artist in the movie, including the ending theme, “Miss Misery”. That artist was Elliott Smith.
Elliott was known for his depression and drug abuse, and that melancholy reflected …

Hari-Krishna Stomp Wagon is a song by The Flaming Lips and the fifth song on their third album, Telepathic Surgery. Opening up with a distorted guitar riff, the band thankfully have the bass fairly prominently in the mix which is nice to hear after some nice bass fills throughout …

Overview —“ World Long Gone, the second music video and single released by Scars On Broadway is pretty much a performance music video, however there’s an audience to this performance, and these audience members carry the meaning of the song. I like this concept because it isn’t just a …

The Gift by Garth Brooks is kind of an odd song for him in my opinion. Don’t get me wrong it’s a very beautiful song but it has a certain Spanish flavor and tone to the song. That is something I would not have expected to hear in …

I think their time (Spice Girls) have really passed them on. What do you think. The latest reunion of Spice Girls although do get the needed kind of attention, I don’t quite think that they will be making boom music like they used to. Everybody still looks …

I first heard this band while my husband was playing a video game, of all things. They provided the soundtrack to several dance club scenes. Dark, sci-fi dance club scenes, that is. I then realized that they had a song on the Queen of the Damned …

I was first introduced to Ladyhawke after hearing Paris is Burning on some cable music channel. I wasn’t immediately impressed. I thought the chorus it sounded quite fresh yet catchy (a difficult combination), but equally was put off by the almost rap-esque verse.
My next exposure to Ladyhawke was seeing …

Be My Head is a song by the Flaming Lips and the seventh rack to appear on their album Transmissions From The Satellite Heart. Opening up with a distorted guitar part backed by a heavy percussive section, Coyne surprisingly is able to find a pretty gentle and melodic vocal …

Pretty Peggy-O is a traditional song which is covered by Bob Dylan that appears on his self-titled debut record. I’ll say right now that the version of this song which I was always familiar with was the version by The Grateful Dead, a version which I actually enjoy quite …

The Saturdays are a relatively new band which has already made some chart topping hits. Most noticeably is their new EP “Just can’t enough” I at first wasn’t all that too sure if it would be a”hit” and a great rendition to the original from dépêche mode. Never the less …

The To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar soundtrack CD is pretty representative of this extraordinary movie which starred Patrick Swayze, Wesley Snipes, and John Legazamo as drag queens. While not every track is a hit for me, several of them are.
The movie, and the CD, opens …

The 21st century began with great news on the music world with the incarnation of some hard rock supergroups like “A Perfect Circle”, “Velvet Revolver” and “Audioslave”. This last one was created on 2001, when the remaining members of Rage Against the Machine (after Zack de la Rocha left …

Sabaton is a heavy metal band that mainly sings in the same type of style and speed as other bands like Iron Maiden, or Metallica. I don’t know why they aren’t heard of any more than they are.
Sabaton can …

Artist: SWV
Video: “Weak”
Album: It’s About Time
Label: RCA Records
Director: Lionel C. Martin
“Weak” is the third single and music video from SWV’s debut album “It’s About Time”, following “Right Here” and “I’m So Into You”. Once again helmed by music video director Lionel C. Martin (who is this guy, the Hype …

Remember when the Mumford-constructed song “Ho Hey” became a huge worldwide hit last 2012? Well, I still could but I never listened to it more than twice. I am a huge fan of Mumford & Sons and I think copying their signature sound wouldn’t do a band any good. …

Although I do not think that many young people my age will recognize the name of the band “Steppenwolf”, I think very highly of them and believe that they should also be thought very highly of in the metal world of music as well, since I personally believe that …

I love the new song Womanizer by Britney Spears very much. My friends were saying that the song is lame and all that, but I think not. This is the latest of Britney Spears that one could really get a-hold of. Do watch the music video clip. …

Siva is a song by The Smashing Pumpkins and is the second song on their debut release, Gish. Opening up with a rhythm guitar riff in the left channel, the riff soon goes on in both channels and the remaining instrumentation of the band enters as well. Right away, …

Back Stabbin’ Baby is a song by Cage The Elephant which appears on their self-titled record. Opening up with a simple drum beat, a lightly distorted guitar rhythm and lead also enter the track before a rhythm guitar part really takes over and establishes the main riff of the …

“Speechless” by Lady Gaga is probably one of my favorite songs by her for the simple fact it justifies her fame more than anything else she’s recorded. Don’t get me wrong. I love pretty much all her songs but I think Speechless shows off how good her voice …

I love music, and I love music videos. Lady Gaga has gotten a lot of exposure lately and she happens to be on my top list of good artists but her latest video has me wondering.
Love game is her latest video. Anyone notice the similarities between her and …

Overview —“ Black Metal, the second album released by Venom, continues in the very heavy and fast sound that Venom introduced on Welcome To Hell and once again proves why they’re considered so influential to both the thrash metal and black metal genres. I think that out of all …

Whiplash Smile is Billy Idol’s third solo album, and (at least until 2005’s highly disappointing Devil’s Playground) the final Idol album to feature both guitarist Steve Stevens and producer Keith Forsey. While not quite up to the level set by the preceding Rebel Yell (what is, really?), it’s still …

I can’t remember exactly how I found out about the band Bring Me the Horizon, but what I do know was that it was a little after their song “Throne” had been released in 2015. Since then I’ve become enamored with their music, and they’ve become one of my new …

A rare blend of Raga & Sahitya is a wonderful music cd. All classical music lovers definitely like this cd. This is carnatic classic-vocal by Bombay s. Jayashri.I daily play this cd in the morning and evening times as it contains various ragas. It is a good cd to …

You’re Gonna Quit Me is a cover performed by Bob Dylan which appears on his record Good As I Been To You. The track opens up with an acoustic guitar pattern which doesn’t exactly carry any major feel to it, but it seems to have somewhat of a folk …

Jay-Z
“Izzo (H.O.V.A.)”
The Blueprint
Roc-A-Fella Records
Jay-Z delivers his first single and music video, “Izzo (H.O.V.A.)”, from his sixth album titled “The Blueprint”. Once again, Jay-Z samples “I Want You Back” by The Jackson 5, the last time he did that was with “I Just Wanna Luv U (Give It 2 Me)” …

Sugar Magnolia is a song by The Grateful Dead which appears on their record American Beauty. Sugar Magnolia opens up with a bouncy sounding rhythm which has an extremely lighthearted tone to it and you can certainly tell that this song will be a lot better than an average …

The Ceiling Is Bendin’ is a song by the Flaming Lips and the sixth song on their album Oh My Gawd. Opening up with a drum and bass part which fades in and out repeatedly, Coyne comes in with the vocals of the track which thankfully has some character …

The Vandoren V12 Clarinet reeds come in a silver box. They reed itself comes in a package which contains a slightly transparent case containing the reed. It costs from around 25 to 30 dollars.
Quality of Reed: I find that the quality of the reed can vary depending on how lucky …

There is a stereotype going around that Hip Hop is all guns, loose woman, and the deft pursuit of all things money and BLING. Add on top of that the piss poor imagery that most commercial rappers portray via MTV and through the radio, that of money hungry, woman …

Celly Cel is a really good rapper from California. He has been a Bay Area Legend for a long time. He is one of the rapper who had the honor of rapping with bay area legend E-40. I really like his style of rap and his voice. He has a …

Eye Of The Beholder, the third track off of And Justice For All, is a track that I will admit I really don’t like very much in comparison to the rest of And Justice For All. I wouldn’t say that I strongly dislike the song or anything but I …

It is probably not very often to encounter for a band like the Cure to be criticized, or even to not be praised, but I think that some of their albums are not very good, and this one, their 1979 debut Three Imaginary Boys is such a record.
I think …

The Killers have gone through their series of hits and flops, and Day & Age is held between those two pillars. This CD provided us with the popular songs Human and Spaceman, which spawned two decent videos as well. But compared to the success of hit songs in the …

Walter’s Walk is a song by Led Zeppelin which appears on their record Coda. The song starts off with a quick blues sounding riff in the right channel from Page as Bonham comes straight down the center with a nice pounding drum rhythm as Plant comes in as well. …

Hearing Barry Manilow sing songs from the 70’s was spine-tingling. He’s not only a musical product of the 70’s himself, but he chose some very popular songs of that era to sing for this CD. All the songs are familiar, yet more-so with Barry’s warm vocals. The songs seem …

Overview —“ Surfing With The Alien, the second album released by Joe Satriani, is another of Satriani’s albums to be completely instrumental and driven primarily by his guitar work. One thing that I always liked about Satriani is that he wasn’t really one of the shredders who just played …

This is the Deftones first official album released in October of 1995 and produced by Terry Date. This is a really impressive debut, the first track Bored is one of my favorite songs by the band. Minus Blindfold has a really cool guitar playing, not my favorite song by …

She thinks my tractors sexy by Kenny Chesney is a song for a guy who lives on a farm and has a girl friend who likes tractors. This song also ditches all other vehicles other than tractors. I listen to this song all the time because it talks …

I rarely appreciate R & B music and thinks these songs are just plain addition to the music genre but does not have “sense” to begin with. I guess I was proved wrong when Boyz II Men have emerged from the scene and made it well in the charts, …

Chemicals react is one of my favorite songs of all time. This is done by my favorite sister duo, Aly & AJ. This song is about having a chemical reaction with someone. This is considered a love song, and it’s a darn good one at that; if you like …